Class of '09: Puzzle Showdown

worst game ever. endings r 3 secs long n the actual ending is js bs. not funny like the first 2 n even flipside was better than this. dont waste ur money on this. literal ♥♥♥♥ game

I enjoyed it even though I think the price should be the same as the other games since this game has less overall class of 09 content. I liked the dialogue but the cutscenes were lacking. Also the game should definitely have a tutorial when you start the campaign even though its in the about section most people dont usually go there when first trying the game, I didnt know you could scroll up with F until after beating the campaign haha. The actual gameplay I did enjoy it gets challenging at the last levels and it was satisfying to win. The characters are great and Emily is hilarious.

just go play the original or the re-up, this franchise has been going downhill ever since the flip side released :(

Decent game but def not worth 20 bucks. also Dont play Weekend at Kelly's for 3 hours straight I cant feel my head anymore.

Probably a system-related problem, as I don't see it widely mentioned in other reviews. But the game is very bugged on my pc. Changing the controls to anything non-default makes the selector move twice, so the game is straight up unplayable. Not an huge issue, I can settle for the default controls. But the subtitles during the dialogues don't advance at all. And when I reached Nicole vs Colby the audio straight up cuts off after a syllable. The game is actually fun though, but the puzzle gameplay is the main focus. If you're looking for a new Class of '09 visual novel (and judging from other reviews, that seems to be what the majority of people expected), you're not finding it here. Better know it before buying it, you're buying a puzzle game. The dialogues are still there, Class of '09 style, and they're nice, but they're just a decoration to the actual game. I'm refunding the game, Probably gonna buy it again when I see some patch notes released.

if you wanna buy the game then buy it (make sure its on sale tho), but i have several critiques. look, i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love class of 09. the first two games in the series were amazing but the feetside only made it go downhill. - the ai of your opponents is pretty hard and you can lose within seconds if you dont instantly analyse every combo possibly in front of you. it makes the game stressful, tiring and overwhelming. it being "hard to master" was probably intentional but its ridiculous at this point on how annoying it is. weekend at kelly's is also just as evil, if not worse. - the dialogue is shallow with the same 5 repeated jokes. emily is always going on about "i love adderall" which was only funny the first time plus other examples. ari's character was just dumbed down to her saying she self harms all the time, which is HORRIBLE to people who do suffer from that. it puts a bad look on those individuals especially if people playing the game and seeing that have no idea on what a self harm addiction looks like, making them get the wrong idea and spreading misinformation on something serious. - the ui is also pretty buggy and the controls are annoying. i couldnt find any information in game (or maybe i didnt look hard enough idk) on what the controls are either and i had to try to figure them out as i was playing. i havent tested out online pvp or marathon mode tho. pvp would be better if it had a match-making system. now looking at it, the whole thing feels like a cash grab and i do regret spending $30 AUD on it, but im still going to continue playing it and try to 100% because im stingy and i dont want my money to go to waste. but i have a feeling im going to give up on it eventually. i still do like some parts and i did laugh a few times but now im just euuughhhh the music is nice, doesnt make up for anything else tho.

believe the negative reviews

People are complaining a lot about the "lack of plot" but it's a puzzle game, not another visual novel. There are some pretty funny cutscenes and stuff and the gameplay is enjoyable. However, whoever in the reviews said that Weekend At Emily's was the best part of this game must have been paid a lot of money to say that. It's alright for the first couple stages, but the speed gets so fast towards the latter levels that you can literally lose in 1 second, no exaggeration. I was playing just thinking "there's no way this is humanly possible." It raises the win line so high by the end, it's higher than where your blocks start. That's how little confidence the game has in you beating it. That, and in the finale of the campaigns, the amount of trash rows the opponent gives to you frequently left me with literally one row of blocks to work with, like, how is that even playable?? You just have to get super lucky and hope the cpu is extra stupid one round. I know I have a lot of gripes to write about, but this is still a good review, really. So yeah, other than that it's pretty good. Something fun to play.

This game is genuinely the worst addition to the series. It's impossible to progress through any story line without completing nearly a hundred "puzzles" to get to an ending. Every interaction is interrupted by this knock off candy crush minigame no matter which mode you play. The developers clearly stopped caring about what made Class of '09 a fun game to begin with and just want to make a trash candy crush game with ultra-short cutscenes of dialogue, which is ironic considering there's slim to none that last longer than 30 seconds. A lot of us have been anticipating the next addition to the series and for the developers to stray so far from the original idea and mechanics is immensely disrespectful and disappointing to the fans. If you want to play a puzzle game, go play a puzzle game. If you want to play a Class of '09 game, don't waste your money on this game. The characters barely get fleshed out and almost the entire game is just the candy crush sh!t. Do not expect a funny VN that you can choose how the story unfolds when you play this game. Expect an endless stream of puzzles preventing the player from progressing through the story even remotely quickly. The puzzles are not very hard, but doing 5 in a row with increasing difficulty (Weekend at Kelly's mode) after making any single decision is just absurd. Incredibly disappointed in this game and hope it's genuinely taken off steam. Bring back what the fans loved in the first place! TL;DR: I requested a refund, I wouldn't recommend buying this without the intention of returning it an hour later!